English
Proper noun
Proto-Indo-European
- (linguistics, uncountable) The reconstructed ancestor language or protolanguage of the Indo-European family of languages, which includes most European, Iranian, and Indian languages.
Synonyms
Translations
ancestor language of most European and Indian languages
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- Japanese: 印欧祖語 (ja) (in’ō sogo), インド・ヨーロッパ祖語 (indo yōroppa sogo)
- Korean: 인도유럽조어 (indoyureopjo-eo), 원시인구어 (wonsiin-gueo)
- Latin: lingua indogermanica f, lingua prisca indoeuropaea f
- Lithuanian: indoeuropiečių prokalbė (lt) f
- Macedonian: праиндоевропски јазик m (praindoévropski jázik)
- Norwegian: protoindoeuropeisk (no)
- Bokmål: urindoeuropeisk (no)
- Nynorsk: urindoeuropeisk
- Persian: نیاهندواروپایی (niyâ-hendo-orupâyi)
- Polish: praindoeuropejski (pl) m
- Portuguese: proto-indo-europeu (pt) m
- Romanian: limba proto-indo-europeană f, stră-indoeuropeană f
- Russian: праиндоевропе́йский язы́к (ru) m (praindojevropéjskij jazýk)
- Serbo-Croatian: proto-indo-europski
- Slovak: praindoeurópčina f, protoindoeurópčina f
- Slovene: praindoevropščina f
- Spanish: protoindoeuropeo m
- Swedish: urindoeuropeiska (sv), protoindoeuropeiska, indoeuropeiska urspråket
- Turkish: Proto-Hint-Avrupaca
- Ukrainian: праіндоєвропейська f (praindojevropejsʹka)
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Noun
Proto-Indo-European (plural Proto-Indo-Europeans)
- (anthropology, countable) A person who spoke the Proto-Indo-European language.
Translations
person who spoke the Proto-Indo-European language
- Dutch: Proto-Indo-Europeaan m
- French: Indo-européen (fr) m, Indoeuropéen (fr) m
- German: Urindogermane m
- Hungarian: indoeurópai (hu)
- Irish: Próta-Ind-Eorpach m
- Lithuanian: indoeuropietis m, indoeuropietė f
- Macedonian: Праиндоевропеец (Praindoevropéec)
- Persian: نیاهندواروپاییزبان (niyâ-hendo-orupâyi-zabân)
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Adjective
Proto-Indo-European (not comparable)
- (linguistics, anthropology) Of or pertaining to the Proto-Indo-European language, or the people who spoke it.
Translations
pertaining to the Proto-Indo-European language, or the people who spoke it
— See also translations at : Indo-European
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- Persian: نیا-هندواروپایی (Niya-Hendo-Orupayi)
- Polish: praindoeuropejski (pl) m
- Portuguese: proto-indo-europeu (pt) m
- Romanian: stră-indoeuropean m, n, proto-indoeuropean m, n
- Russian: праиндоевропе́йский (ru) (praindojevropéjskij)
- Slovene: praindoevropski
- Spanish: protoindoeuropeo
- Swedish: urindoeuropeisk, protoindoeuropeisk
- Turkish: Proto-Hint-Avrupa grubuna ait, Proto-Hint-Avrupa grubundan
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Related terms
See also
Proto-Indo-European is the hypothetical ancestor language of many languages, including the following major groups:
- Wiktionary's coverage of Proto-Indo-European terms
- Appendix:Proto-Indo-European Swadesh list for a Swadesh list of basic vocabulary words in Proto-Indo-European
References
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↑ Wells, John C. Longman Pronunciation Dictionary, 3rd ed. Longman, 2008. isbn 9781405881180.